How to Defuse a Bomb The Project Children Story

Audience Score
80
How to Defuse a Bomb The Project Children Story
NR 1 hr 30 minDocumentary
The extraordinary untold story of how an NYPD bomb disposal expert played a key role in helping defuse the decades old Troubles in Northern Ireland In 1975 Irish immigrant Denis Mulcahy of the NYPD bomb squad gathered a group of family friends and neighbours to start a scheme offering children from Northern Ireland a chance to temporarily escape the violent turmoil of their daily lives From modest beginnings Project Children ultimately brought over 20000 Catholic and Protestant children to suburban US for summerlong visits where they forged unexpected friendships and found they had more in common with the enemy than they thought Now this extraordinary untold story is being brought to the screen in a new documentary by Des Henderson and narrated by Liam Neeson entitled How To Defuse A Bomb The Project Children Story
DirectorDes Henderson